Woman who gave kids to pedophile caught in Port Wentworth

A 38-year-old woman who allegedly provided her young daughters to a pedophile was arrested in Port Wentworth on Tuesday after she was featured on the TV show "America's Most Wanted."

U.S. Marshals say a tip from one of the show's viewers led them to a house in the 200 block of Cantyre Street, less than three blocks from Port Wentworth police headquarters. Marshals arrested Jennifer Segrest without incident with the help of Chatham County sheriff's deputies and Port Wentworth police.

Cobb County Police Department Detective Ken Adamczyk has been investigating the case since 2009, after Segrest's daughters reported the abuse to Savannah-Chatham police. Adamczyk said the girls were being molested in Savannah by Segrest's boyfriend, Cesar Moran, and that Segrest also was selling her daughters for pornographic pictures and sex to David Ray, a private tutor in Cobb County.

"This is just an ugly, ugly case from top to bottom," Adamczyk said. "This has got to be the ultimate act of betrayal, a mother betraying her daughters' innocence."

Ray paid Segrest more than $50,000, Adamczyk said, and she drove the girls - both younger than 12 - from Savannah to Cobb County in 2007 so he could molest them.

The abuse began, Adamczyk said, when Segrest was in jail for theft and the girls were living in Cobb County with their aunt, Rebecca Wiggins. Wiggins, 37, was convicted in October of sexual exploitation of a child and aggravated sodomy.

Adamczyk said Wiggins let Ray molest Segrest's oldest daughter and was paid more than $9,000.

Savannah-Chatham police have a warrant for Moran's arrest for child molestation, but Adamczyk said he is believed to have fled to Guatemala. Ray killed himself three days after Cobb County police searched his home in 2009, Adamczyk said.

Officers have been looking for Segrest for more than two years. Port Wentworth Sgt. Steven Holmes said she was living on Cantyre Street with her new boyfriend and two toddler sons, who have been taken by the Georgia Department of Human Services. Human Services is investigating the case, Holmes said.

Segrest is being held at the Chatham County jail, where Adamczyk was questioning her Tuesday night. She's currently pregnant, Chatham County sheriff's office spokeswoman Michelle Gavin said.